Where Seattle and other Pacific Northwest cities rank among the country’s best for baseball

Yes, the Mariners stink right now, but would you believe Seattle is one of the country’s top cities for baseball?

WalletHub, a personal finance website, recently conducted a study of the nation’s top 272 towns with baseball teams — that’s major league, minor league and college — and ranked them all according to 11 key metrics. These criteria include each team’s performance, ticket costs, franchise value, ballpark accessibility and even the number of sports bars per capita.

We’ve pulled out all the Pacific Northwest cities that WalletHub examined — not including, for some reason, Tacoma or Everett — into the gallery below. We also included every city with a Major League Baseball team for additional context.